The purpose of this article is to elaborate, in a descriptive manner, on selected aspects of the cyclical structure of Wilhelm Müller’s and Franz Schubert’s Winterreise (1827, D911) and the effects that intercultural transfer and language change can have on it. For this purpose, first some theoretical considerations on the cyclicality of the song collection in general and the Winterreise in particular are collected in order to then exemplarily deal with the concrete references of a selected song to the other songs of the cycle both in original and translation. An early French translation of the song cycle by the French translator Bélanger is consulted here. The analysis shows how the translational (especially the lexical) choices of the translator in the individual songs can lead to a changed understanding of the whole song cycle.